Jane Mullings et al. in London, Rupert Street - 20 January, 1760, in the afternoon
from Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 February 2019), February 1760, trial of Charles Cullam (t17600227-32). :
Jane Mullings: My husband and I happened to be coming up Rupert-Street on that Sunday. We saw a man [Charles Cullam] playing and dancing, and singing to a child [Rose Cullam], I saw it fall out at the window.
Q. Was you looking up at the instant it fell from his arms?
J. Mullings. No, but I saw the child coming down, and the blanket in the man's arms.
Acquitted. Accidental death.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0, 08 February 2019), February 1760, trial of Charles Cullam (t17600227-32). , number t17600227-32. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1550927518289 accessed: 24 November, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| singing to a child | performed by Charles Cullam |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 20 January, 1760, in the afternoon |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Notes
The listening experience was identified in ‘The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913’, a fully searchable database detailing the lives of non-elite people, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court. Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard and Jamie McLaughlin, et al., The Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0 February 2019)